It is indeed. I got that one when I first saw it in the cinema. Beautiful and slightly disturbing film.
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It is indeed. I got that one when I first saw it in the cinema. Beautiful and slightly disturbing film.
I'm not a huge fan of films in general, to be fair. I much prefer TV series, because they have enough time to actually build up emotional investment in a character. Of course, there's a fine line between using this time to slowly build an engrossing connection with the world of the show, and dragging on pointlessly through filler episodes to make up the numbers, but the best series manage it. Not that films can't do that, of course, but I find myself all too often just not caring about the characters involved because of a lack of depth.
Yep, I can understand that. Adapted short stories often make very good films simply because the writer can create characters and plot concisely enough. Hence why Shawshank is such a good film. It was originally a short story called Rita Hayworth & The Shawshank Redemption, by Stephen King. A lot of his short stories have made very good films.
Ah, now there's an example of getting emotional attachment to characters right in a film. I always feel so cliche for saying I love Shawshank, but it really is brilliant.
Whenever I watch it, at some point I always wonder why it bombed in the cinema. To this day I'm not sure if it made its money back, and we know how it is so important to make a huge profit in Hollywood. Hence why a series of films I would have loved to have seen, but never became real, the sequels to Master and Commander - The Far Side of the World.
I thought all three LOTR films were brilliant, the Hobbit was poor I thought , and there are two more of them.......
Krull....awful science fiction film. I like science fiction, but I also bet SciFi features strongly in most lists of awful films.
Going back to Coen brothers films, my top three in order are:
1. Fargo (quite brilliant, a modern-day Western with a pregnant female hero)
2. O Brother Where Art Thou (George Clooney showing he really can do comedy, plus a great soundtrack)
3. The Big Lebowski (Jeff Bridges at his absolute surrealistic best)
Hope that helps...
1. Fargo (quite brilliant, a modern-day Western with a pregnant female hero)
2. O Brother Where Art Thou (George Clooney showing he really can do comedy, plus a great soundtrack)
3. The Big Lebowski (Jeff Bridges at his absolute surrealistic best)
Hope that helps...
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